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Summary: Easy to Read, Easy to Follow
Review: Awesome book. Easy to understand. Of course, prior to reading this, I read many other trading books, so I was already familiar with much of the terminology. It cleared up some things I didn't quite understand in a more simplistic language than the other books I was reading. It summarizes trading in relatively few pages. If you want more in-depth knowledge of a specific strategy, then you'll have to buy other books. It's a great beginner book. My husband and I are making money, not guessing but using the technical analysis she uses. We have gotten more heavily into candlesticks and love it. She explains it fairly simply. Good book. She is a good writer. We also purchased her Day Trading book. Both books are similar.
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Summary: Simple & Fun
Review: Easy to read, gets technical without going overboard. Nice touch to keep going back to the psychology of trading as well. However, in her stock selection criteria she recommends using industry/group leaders from IBD (Investor's Business Daily). That would severely limit your trading opportunities and confuses trading with investing, something newbies should be VERY clear on. A good starting point but if you are serious buy additional books as others here have suggested.
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Summary: BUY IT!
Review: I found Toni Turner's book a very excellent one crammed with lots of information very useful for those "going short" to those that "going long" and everything in between. Armed with all the information contained within, and learning about chart's and graph's, terminology, market data, resources, indicators, etc., etc., your goal of success will be very high. And to top it off she's very funny; so the sections that have to cover the boring information is made very fun and light hearted. Plus her "Hot Tips" throughout the book are very useful and the motivation sections are just icing on the cake. Nothing less than 5 Stars for such a great asset and a great source of reference material in the future.
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Summary: Excellent book and value
Review: I was surprised at how well this book was written. There is alot of valuable info packed into this book. The writing style is easy to understand and the information is plentiful and reliable. I have read other books that were much costlier than this one and none were near as good. I recommend this book to all my friends interested in stock trading.
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Summary: Easy book, but same the old one
Review: it is good and easy style book. but if you have her first book, you do not need to buy the second one. nothing new expet that she added some about money management
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Summary: An excellent introduction to Swing Trading
Review: The author's second book on the subject goes into short-term trading in more depth than in her first guide, which covered Day, Swing, and longer term trading. She writes in a lively, entertaining style that makes learning a very difficult subject simple and entertaining. In addition, she includes very neccessary advice on the psychological aspects of trading, which any successful trader will tell you is about 90% of the game. The techniques included here are tried and true and used by the most successful (read: surviving) traders. There's no spin here, and no angle or hidden agenda being push. What's written in this book is a sincere effort to convey to the reader how to win at short-term trading.
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Summary: A little bit of info, and a lot of fluff
Review: This book could really be about 50 pages long instead of 280. It covers from ground zero of what a stock market is, to some fundamentals of technical analysis. Like some other reviewers, I think it is excessively dumbed-down and sometimes patronizing, and annoying in the amount of time it takes to say something simple. Throughout, it is filled with commentary on the psychology of investing, and new-age motivational feel-good-isms. As an example, she has a quote at the end of each chapter; one chapter ends with a quote from Ramtha, a spiritual being who is channeled by the leader of a new-age cult in southern Washington State (take a look at http://skepdic.com/channel.html if you haven't heard of it); another ends with a quote from a book on magic. Not exactly the person whose ideas I am going to trust with the money that I invest. The elements of actual truth and knowledge that are imparted in the discussion of technical analysis and other items seem to be just barely enough to make the author seem to know what she's talking about. I am not surprised that she seems to have a full-time business selling books and lectures rather than trading...
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Summary: I feel somewhat taken...
Review: This book is decent for a beginning active trader. It is easy to read and it is not a costly investment. However, her broad topics culminate in one ending example of trades of Juniper (JNPR). JNPR's behavior at the time was a total aberration and a result of the irrational hype of the internet boom. It was not a "real" example that a beginning trader would encounter. Then I signed up for her newsletter at her website which she touts in her book. All I received in two months were solicitations to buy books through her website. Although I respect her knowledge, you get the feeling that a majority of her income is from speaking engagements and bilking people like me out of $15 to buy her book. There are other authors who make a majority of their income through trading, I hope you can find one of those.
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Summary: BUY IT!
Review: This book is packed with valuable, usable information from oscillators to use of candlestick patterns and lots more. The writing style is simple yet effective, better than most books that cost many times more. BUT IT!
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Summary: 4 and 1/2 star rating
Review: This book is really the second edition of her first book "A Beginners Guide to Day Trading". The content is about 80-90% the same, although the descriptions and charts are new. There are a few new pointers in the book. The discussions on intraday and level II displays have been mostly eliminated. If you are a beginner trader who wants a good foundation, this is the book to get. Ms. Turner's discussions are methodical and inclusive. Plus it is easy to read and has humor. Obviously she is an good teacher. The amount of topics covered for the price is a bargain. If you already read her first book, it's up to you. Most of the concepts are the same. But there are few extra pointers, and it doesn't hurt to go over all concepts (for a beginner like myself) since there is a lot covered in the book. My only gripe is that the new money management chapter was a bit under emphasized. I feel this topic is very important to the longevity of traders. But at least she covers the topic.
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